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What method work best for you to start a short story?  I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s…[Read more]

Greetings, Colleagues!

On behalf of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, I’d like to invite you to the two linked panels we’ve organized for this year’s convention, which we hope will be of interest to many of you:

Friday, 6 January

<b>283. Embattled Rhetorics: Claiming Otherness, Recasting Privilege</b>

<i>12:00 noon–1:15 p…[Read more]

Greetings! I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, so I thought I’d take a moment to introduce myself and outline some of my interests and goals. I currently serve as assistant professor of medical humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine. D…[Read more]

American Documentary Poetics

CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA

Call for papers on any topic related to American documentary poetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including p…[Read more]

American Documentary Poetics

CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MA

Call for papers on any topic related to American docupoetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including photos a…[Read more]

HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY released Oct. 28, 1941.

Today is the 75th anniversary of this controversial (and prophetic) film that won Best Picture Oscar 1942 over Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane.

HGWMV shows the industrial growth and de-industrialization of a Welsh coal mining town long before people thought
of these problems.

I have written an essay…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

My name is Alan Gravano, and I am running for the Italian American Discussion Group. I sat in on the meeting last year in Austin and presented a paper on teaching Italian American beat poets. Yesterday, my paper on Ferlinghetti and di Prima challenging the conventional definitions of multi-ethnic literature was accepted by the Beat…[Read more]

There is an article in the New York Times concerning the amount of attention that steel workers are getting.  The gist of the essay itself is that far too much attention is being paid to manufacturing and steel worker sin particular by politicians.

The cure is to become something else, get a new job, and leave all the baggage behind.  How do we f…[Read more]

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Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.  NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]

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Rust Belt Literature
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.  NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.

This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]